On Twitter, manners produce results.

10 February 2010
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On Super Bowl Sunday, what nephew Peter Page is serving at the Royal Sonesta in New Orleans.

7 February 2010
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Vancouver 2010: One week away.

4 February 2010
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Women’s freestyle aerialist Emily Cook of the U.S. Olympic Ski Team, from a series of photographs by Ryan McGinley in the Sunday 7 February edition of The New York Times Magazine. Emily will compete in the women’s aerials qualification event on Saturday 20 February at the Cypress Mountain venue, with the finals on the evening […]

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From Haiti, seeds of hope for the next disaster: Superheroes, social media and Socialserve.com.

2 February 2010
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Brooker’s formula for television news reporting.

30 January 2010
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Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker deconstructs a typical television news report. Brooker so hilariously and accurately captures the formula that his video could serve as a template for young journalists. Favorite part — dowdy man opens letters in his kitchen: “When I’m watching the news, you know, there’s a person talking to me, telling me what’s […]

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In the promised land of mobile computing, are more than two flavors possible?

22 January 2010
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A Swiss designer on how mute buttons speak.

22 January 2010
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How do the buttons and functions on software tell their own story? How do the mute little creatures say that they are, in fact, a button, and that you should push on them if you want to do something? A short, outstanding post by Swiss designer Lukas Mathis in his blog Ignore the Code summarizes […]

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A Communist Party spy at Google?

17 January 2010

The Google story in China now has a “Deep Throat” insider leaking information on a Chinese review site. An anonymous poster on the Douban social media review site alleged on Friday 15 January that Google is shutting down in China to block access to source code by spies from the Chinese Community Party. “The code […]

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Richard Sapper’s Skylight: art on deadline.

14 January 2010
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German designer Richard Sapper creates tools that become an essential, understated, almost invisible part of everyday life. He’s been doing it for several decades. Visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York and you’ll see half a dozen Sapper designs. He conceived the original ThinkPad in 1992, once describing it as the calling card […]

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In Haiti, use of social media in crisis response.

13 January 2010
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Social media are serving numerous operational roles today in response to the earthquake in Haiti. The Christian Science Monitor reports people are using Twitter to report infrastructure status, share needs, raise funds and provide links to resources. Relevant tags are #haiti and #eq. Twitter users Sebastien Barrau (@sebastienbarrau) and Marvin Chery (@reveiled) today created the […]

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